A trick-or-treating couple in Rockland County, New York dressed as a Hasidic family toting a wagon full of babies and the sign “we buy houses cash.” “This is not funny, this is blatant anti-semitism,” one account called Rockland is One posted on Facebook. “It’s no different than if these people had dressed in blackface. It’s…
Officials in the New York State county of Rockland want local or state officials to shutter an Orthodox Jewish day school in the village of New Hempstead over its failure to connect its trailer classrooms to water and electric facilities, the Journal News reported. The school, Ateres Bais Yaakov Academy, had received a temporary certificate…
Hatzolah, private ambulance service run by ultra-Orthodox Jews, is being accused of failing to notify police after a 7-year-old girl drowned in New York’s Rockland County. Responders from Hatzolah took the girl, who drowned in a private pool in Pomona, New York, to a local medical center. Police have ruled the death an accident. Police…
Police are investigating two fireworks blasts outside of the homes of two Chabad rabbis late on the evening of August 9 in suburban Rockland County, New York. Two fireworks exploded in quick succession, one near parked cars, the other setting a tree on fire, according to a Facebook post by the Clarkstown Police Department. A…
NEW YORK — Leaders in the Jewish community of New York’s Rockland County condemned the hanging of a black-faced doll with dreadlocks outside a local home apparently in celebration of Purim. The effigy, which according to a News12 Hudson Valley report Thursday evening was spotted outside a Spring Valley house, angered many African-Americans and others…
The Anti-Defamation League is slamming an advertisement for a candidate for Rockland County sheriff as highly offensive for its negative portrayal of Hasidic Jews. The ad for Richard Vasquez includes a photograph of Lou Falco, the current sheriff of the suburban New York county, surrounded by Orthodox Jews as a narrator says the sheriff “has…
Between economic challenges and declining affiliation rates, it has been a rough few years for the non-Orthodox Jewish community in Rockland County. Situated about 30 miles north of midtown Manhattan, Rockland has been named New York’s most fiscally stressed community for two straight years by the state comptroller, and median home values are still down…
Federal authorities are investigating a threatening photo sent to a Hasidic lawmaker in suburban New York. Aron Wieder, a Democrat who is majority leader of the Rockland County Legislature, received a photo last week in the mail showing his head pasted on the body of a person beheaded by the Islamic State jihadist group. The…
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